This Georgian cartoon was made in 1974 by Oleg Kochakidze, Yuri Chikvaidze, and Alexander Slovinsky. Music by Giya Kancheli. I'm sorry it cuts off so abruptly, but I'm afraid I have not been able to find a complete version.
This satirical cartoon was made by Bondo Shoshitaishvili and Gia Lapauri in the Republic of Georgia in 1989, when the Soviet Union was on its last leg.
Originally intended to be twice as long (and three times as coherent), this two-year-old project was abandoned when I ran out of hard drive space. The music is "Hallelujah Junction" by John Adams (Nonesuch Records).
From "The Brian Costello Show with Brian Costello," April 28 at the Empty Bottle in Chicago. Sidekick Matt Flaiz defends his title as a champion hula hooper against three challengers.
Brian, sidekick Matt Flaiz, and author John McNally begin the show by offering a few words about the painful national crisis in which we find ourselves embroiled.
Sidekick and Vietnam veteran Matt Flaiz reads from the diary he kept during the war. From the Brian Costello Show on March 10, 2007 at the Empty Bottle in Chicago.
"Amanda Zonker-Krunchie Living." Sidekick Matt Flaiz tragically shrank his favorite sweater, so Amanda tells him how to treat his laundry. From The Brian Costello Show on March 10, 2007 at the Empty Bottle in Chicago.
From "The Brian Costello Show with Brian Costello," April 28 at the Empty Bottle in Chicago. Sidekick and Vietnam veteran Matt Flaiz reads another moving entry from the diary he kept during the war.
"The Brian Costello Show with Brian Costello" presents Matt & Mandy Krunchie's Country Cavalcade of Young Country Tunes with a review of Toby Keith's 2003 release, "Shock'n Y'all."